Dinner Rolls Recipe

5 from 266 votes

Dinner Rolls Recipe

This soft, buttery homemade dinner rolls recipe is best-loved. Perfect for holidays, or anytime, it's so hard to eat just one!

Prep Time20

Cook Time20

Dough rising time2

Total Time2 40

Course: Bread

Cuisine: American

Servings:

Author: Lil' Luna

Ingredients

1 tablespoon rapid rise yeast
½ teaspoon sugar
¼ cup warm water
1 cup warm milk
½ cup vegetable oil
½ cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
4½-5 cups all-purpose flour divided
2 large eggs
½ cup unsalted butter melted
salted butter for brushing

Instructions

In a small bowl, mix yeast and sugar with warm water. Let stand until bubbly.
In a large bowl, mix warm milk, oil, sugar, and salt with a wooden spoon.
Add 1 cup of flour to the mixture and mix well. Add eggs and mix vigorously until smooth. Add yeast mixture and continue to mix until smooth.
Add remaining flour to the yeast mixture 1 cup at a time and continue to mix with a wooden spoon until the dough is combined. The dough should be soft and sticky.
Pour the dough into a large bowl, cover with a tea towel, and let rise until it has doubled in size, about 1 hour.
Once the dough has doubled in size, punch down and divide it in half. On a floured surface, roll each piece out into a 12-inch circle. The dough circles should be about ⅜ inch thick.
Brush both dough circles with melted unsalted butter. Cut each circle with a pizza cutter into 12 pieces (like a pizza). Roll each piece from the rounded edge to the point to make a crescent roll.
Place rolls on a greased baking sheet with the pointed tips down (we use an 11-x-16-inch metal pan and do 3 rows across and 8 rows down).
Cover rolls with a tea towel and let rise until they have doubled in size, about 1 hour.
When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 375°F.
Bake for 16–20 minutes, until lightly browned. (Touch rolls to see if they bounce back—if they do not, bake a little longer). Brush with melted salted butter while warm. Serve warm.

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Notes

Make ahead of time. Unbaked rolls can be frozen right after they are formed in Step 7. Place unbaked rolls on a baking sheet and freeze immediately. Once frozen, place in resealable plastic freezer bags, seal and place in the freezer. Take them out a couple hours before baking to let them rise to about double the size, which will take longer since the dough is frozen.
Use a stand mixer. You can mix this dough in a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook; just be careful not to overmix the dough because it will make it tougher and not as soft.

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